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Please join us for two design game workshops on future-proofing Houston. To RSVP, click on the links below. Please enter at least $1 to purchase a ticket on Eventbrite. Suggested donation for each ticket is $5 to $10. The donations will be used to cover workshop expenses. If you wish to bypass Eventbrite to RSVP […]

Ataul Hannan and Todd Ward from Harris County Flood Control District will trace the origins of the county’s flood vulnerability, evaluate the performances of the District’s major flood mitigation projects in the context of recent historic flood events, and introduce effective ways to use the various flood monitoring tools on their website. Source: Harris County […]

Richard Ruchhoeft, Project Manager from the Port of Houston will give an overview of how the Port’s properties survived Hurricane Harvey and how it prepares itself for the impacts of more intense storms and a rising sea level in the future. Source: Port of Houston

Buffalo Bayou Park was designed to flood. It spared its surroundings from flooding during Hurricane Harvey. While the park captured a significant amount of sediment, the bayou segment future east of the park suffered from severe erosion. Jose Solis, project manager from the Buffalo Bayou Partnership will compare how the Buffalo Bayou Park and the […]

LA327 Theory of Landscape Architecture will offer landscape performance as a lens through which to explore resilient by design as a design theory for climate adaptation with support from the Landscape Architecture Foundation Landscape Performance Education Grant. https://lafoundation.org/news-events/blog/2017/07/21/lp-education-grant-recipients/

On August 7, Dr. Hope Hui Rising made a presentation to the Landscape Architecture Foundation with four other professors from around the country. Her presentation focused on the use of landscape performance to motivate proactive funding mechanism for climate-adaptive interventions, which often rely on disaster-driven funding, by documenting their short-term co-benefits as ecosystem services that can contribute to long-term resilience incrementally.

Location: Exploratorium, The Bay Observatory, Pier 15/17 (Embarcadero at Green Street) Time: 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. on June 6 Join us for a presentation by Dr. Hope Hui Rising on “Adapting San Francisco to Rising Tides, Flooding, and Drought.”

Dr. Hope Hui Rising presented lessons learned from intergenerational planning and designing for sea level rise using design games at the Annual Conference of the Environmental Design Research Association in Madison, WI. http://www.edra.org/page/Friday_Full_Schedule ABSTRACT We examined the potential of design game in facilitating intergenerational planning and design for sea level rise in eight community workshops […]

Adaptive Water Urbanism Initiative

The TAMU Adaptive Water Urbanism Initiative is an integrated program of teaching, research, and outreach for translating the most cutting-edge research into ecosystem-based urban design interventions to help climate-proof communities while providing hands-on climate adaptation education to our young generations that will be the most affected by the impacts of climate change and sea level rise.